Mountain lion killed on resident's porch

Independent Record | ^ | May 25, 2011 | EVE BYRON

[jazusamo]

The cat has become unafraid of humans. Have you seen or read what a mountain lion can do to a human? If a human survives an attack they have very grievous injuries.

[Randy Larsen]

Where I live we follow the code...

Shoot, Shovel, and Shut Up.

They die so our children may live.

[tiki]

A lion comortable enough to curl up on a porch is a lion who has no fear of people and people should fear them.

We also shoot, shovel and shut up.

[JoeProBono]

[terycarl]

No..but it was a clean enough shot to kill it. Makes me sick. I might get "flamed" but imo, these aholes that decide to kill before trying darts or tranqulizers are nothing but a bunch of unlearned hicks too lazy to 'track' the animal should it run off after the dart. In our country now we must preserve the spotted-freakin'-owl, or some beetle or some stupid minnow type species. but we're suppose to believe that this mountain lion, had to be put down?? For what?

oh, please....it was a mountain lion on someones porch, had they tranquilized it and took it into the wild, how soon do you suppose it would have come back...wild animals which have no fear of humans are VERY dangerous....killing it was the right thing to do! Libs and stupid people only care about the easiest thing to preserve

[troy McClure]

I keep a shotgun by the back door for Cougars and Bears that might wander into our yard.

Our property backs right up to the National Forest, so we have to be prepared.

[Deaf Smith]

"Trigger-happy guy in a pickup truck!"

In East Fort Worth, that would have been considered a Drive By shooting.

In other parts of the state, a Road Shooter...Poacher.

[Dengar01]

I'm not hunting the cat. I'm saying if a big mountain lion that can kill me comes at me or is looking at me aggressively I will shoot it.

There are many phobias for people. Afraid of heights, claustrophobia, arachnophobia, well I'm mountain lionphobic. So I'm sure PETA can sue me for that, but I have nightmares about them things.

The horrid stories of young children, pets, joggers, ect... being mauled by mountain lions is insane.

I put out a challenge (besides democrats) what species in the United States of America is more aggressive towards humans than mountain lions?

[rabidralph]

You’ll get no argument from me. The cat was minding its own business.

[Spudx7]

I am with you on the phobia. I probably shouldn’t have read this...we have a wooded area in our back yard, it’s our children’s favorite place to play. Now I’ll be in fear mode for the next several months every time they go back there.

[leapfrog0202]

I’m with you. After his nap, this one-year-old would have sauntered off on his own.

Trigger-happy guy in a pickup truck!

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He is a game warden. They aren’t usually trigger happy. MT takes their wildlife very seriously but there’s been plenty of ugly incidents where cats ‘minding their own business’ hurt people when startled.

[Daffynition]

Charlene was in the house. Can you imagine the potential danger to getting killed by a stray HP shot from the officer’s gun
I *love* it, he shot from the *safety* of his vehicle. Much bigger chance of that happening than getting killed by the lion. Morons. Twice over.

[Daffynition]

[little jeremiah]

I agree with both of you. How many people get killed by mountain lions a year?

It’s very rare to get harmed by a mountain lion. They’re all over the place here and I have never seen one. Just heard them, seen their prints and scat, and deer they’ve killed. I prefer mountain lions to most people.

[Outlaw Woman]

That is an awesome photo. The north American Mountain lion-cougar is, imo, the most beautiful out of all the big cats on the planet.

Thx for posting that.

[Outlaw Woman]

I prefer mountain lions to most people.

me too lj (especially in the insane world we now have to live in)

[goat granny]

Also if cats that aren’t afraid of human’s, they raise their young to also stay in the human area....those that stay away have cubs that usually stay away also....Any predator within an area that can kill a child should be done away with....our ancestors were smarter than todays people, they knew a danger when they saw it and eleminated it...

[Daffynition]

Agree with you.

[ConservativeWarrior]

our ancestors were smarter than todays people, they knew a danger when they saw it and eleminated it

No doubt. This is what comes of the animals-are-people-too mentality. These people are just nuts. I wonder if they'd stand behind their pots-and-pans tactics if the cat had returned and killed a human at a later date. Sadly, they probably would.

[I Buried My Guns]

Ma'am, I respectfully disagree. I say kill them before you put a child at risk. I say children have more value than mountain lions, although I do have a love and respect for wild animals.

I have had exactly one closeup encounter with a mountain lion, while riding my mountain bike in a semi-rural area.

I was close enough to see his enormous, sinewy, lithe muscles under his coat, and there was no doubt in my mind he could have easily killed me that day. He was about 50 feet away, hanging out in an area where bunny rabbits were known to congregate in the afternoon to munch on grass, just off the trail I was riding (illegally!).

He looked like a sub adult, but his tail was thicker than my arm, and his shoulder muscles looked like coils of cable. He was immense!

This occured on Sheep Camp Trail, just west of Belmont, CA. The next week I moved to Texas.